Can opening and protecting device



M. M. CODY.

CAN OPENING AND PROTECTING DEVICE. APPLICATION man AUG-19. 19x9.

1,383,600; Patented July 5, 1921-.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Ptt'bQll't-fitll ulyo, 19210 Application filed. August 19,1919; serial lto. 318,563.

To all 10 7mm it may concern 1 Be it known that I, MARGRET M. CODY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of Seattle, county of King, and State of /Vashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Can Opening and Protecting Devices, of which the following is a specification. p Y

My invention relates to a can opening and protecting device which is designed for use in perforating a can such as a condensed mllk can, so that the contents thereof may be poured out as desired and also to protect the openings made in the head of the can to prevent dirt, and flies having access thereto.

My invention comprises the novel parts and combination of parts which I will here inafter describe and then particularly define in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, I have shown my device as I now prefer to make it.

Figure 1 is a face view of the device as applied to a can.

Fig. 2 is a side View of the device applied to a can with a portion thereof broken away.

Fig. 3 is cross section of the can with my device applied thereto.

Fig. 4: is a side View of a can with my device applied thereto showing the lever raisedas it would be while pouring milk.

In using condensed milk cans as a holder for milk which is to be used in small quantities, unless the top is protected in some way from flies and dirt, the openings very quickly become unsightly and fouled. My device, when applied to a can, may be used for perforating the head and then keeping these perforations covered when the milk is not being poured out.

As a base or main frame of my device, I employ a cap, 1, which has a flange, 10, extending about the same, and of a size to fit snugly over the top of the can. This is pro- -vided with a notch, 11, and notches 12, the

latter being on opposite sides of the can. The notch 11 may also be duplicated at the other side of the can. The notch 11 is so placed as to be alined with the hole made in the top of the can from which the milk is to be poured. At this side of the can the notch 11 may be merged with the notch 12 1f clesired.

A lever 2 is pivotally mounted upon the cap 1 and is shaped much like a letter T.

The stem of this is pivoted upon ears 13 which are either struck up from the material of the cap, as has been indicated in Fig. 1, or

is a part of separate piece attached to the cap.

The head 20 of the .T, extends across the head. of the can and at each end is provided with a spur or point 21, which may be forced through the head of the can to form openings from which the milk is poured at one side and the air admitted at the other.

of this lever and has its ends engaging respectively with the cap 1 and the lever 2, acting to normally hold the end of the lever which carries the point 21, down upon the can, thus keeping the holes which have been made by the points 21, closed. When it is desired to pour out some of the milk, a finger of the hand which picks up the can, may be used to press down upon the opposite end of the lever 2, to thus raise the points 21 and to open the holes in the head of the can.

I prefer to employ a spring bar 4, which bar is secured to the cap at or adjacent its center, and preferably has the portions toward the ends thereof, unsecured to the cap. The tips 40 of this bar are bent over, after the manner shown in Fig. 2, and are designed to engage under the seam by which the head of the can is secured to the body thereof, through the notches 12. This bar may be made of suflicient strength that it will hold the cap securely in place. The cap 1 is provided with a hole in its upper surface for the passage of the points 21. This hole may be an extension of the hole 11 which is formed in the flange 10;

coiled spring 3, surrounds the pivot pin 30 V In pouring milk from the can, after'the cap 1 has been placed in position upon the can top and the two holes punched therein by the pins 21, the can is grasped in the users hand, and one finger, engaging the lever 2, raises the pins 21 from their seats e sage of said points and positioned therebeneath, and a spring normally holding this end of the lever down upon the "cap. I

2. A milk can opening and protecting device comprising a cap adapted to fit over the end of a can, and having two separated upturned ears, a T-shaped lever having its stem pivoted upon a horizontal axis between said ears, and can-piercing points at the outer ends of the head and just within the margins of the cap, the cap having holes just large enough for the passage of these points and extending from a position immediately beneath the pins laterally and downwardly beyond the side edge of the cap, and a spring surrounding the pivot of said lever and normally holding the liead'of the lever down on the cap.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 13th day of August, 1919.

MARGRET M. CODY. 

